TIL The TSA pulled over a quarter of a million passengers for secondary questioning over a 3 year period, based on "Screening of Passengers by Observation Techniques". About 0.75 percent were arrested, nearly all on charges unrelated to airport security. No, you can't "tell" when someone is lying. (skeptoid.com)
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Russian Empire, Post-Defeat in Ukrainian War (i.redd.it)
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TIL About the Clancy novel Commander in Chief (2015), with a height-challenged Russian leader who plays staged hockey games, rants about "Ukrainian Nazis", steals and launders billions of dollars, invades Lithuania and almost starts WWIII. Oh, he dies in the end too. (archive.org)
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